Comera Life Sciences Holdings, Inc. announced the appointment of Janice Marie McCourt as Chief Business Officer. In her role at Comera, Ms. McCourt will be responsible for business development, including evaluation and execution of out-licensing, in-licensing and strategic transaction opportunities, and driving the execution of the Company's commercial strategy. Ms. McCourt will report to Jeffrey Hackman, Chairman and CEO, and serve on the Company's executive leadership team, working closely with the other members of the executive leadership team to secure commercial partnership opportunities and advance the Company's pipeline of drug candidates.

Ms. McCourt also served as Senior Vice President of Business Development and Marketing for Ingenix, a health care information, technology and research company and a wholly owned subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group. Prior to Ingenix, she was Vice President of Corporate Development and Marketing at ActivBiotics, a biotechnology company focused on developing and commercializing antibiotics and combination therapies for the treatment of acute and chronic infections. Ms. McCourt's prior biotechnology and pharmaceutical experience also includes roles in business development, marketing, medical affairs, training, corporate communications, and investor relations at Praecis Pharmaceuticals, Abbott Laboratories, and Takeda.

She has led or supported the commercial strategy of more than one hundred products that have advanced from clinical development through regulatory approval globally with billions in sales. Ms. McCourt holds a B.S. in Pharmacy on a full academic scholarship, with a specialization in Industrial Pharmacy from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and graduated summa cum laude with an MBA from the University of Phoenix in General Management.